It's hard to make direct comparisons country by country, because health care systems operate differently, but if I talk about some good models or good practices, the move is away from residential care. The move is for governments not to be involved in the delivery of residential care services. So you don't have nursing homes anymore that are owned and operated by government or provincial governments, in many countries, and that has been a move over 15 to 20 years, the reason being that it's difficult for a government to implement and measure itself against quality improvement or quality assurance principles, and it's very difficult for government to criticize itself.
Governments that have recognized that have looked at strengthening quality assurance systems within home care and long-term care, but the delivery of those systems is very much within the private sphere or the not-for-profit, non-government sphere. Governments are packaging services much more that look at making the services fit the basket of needs that the veteran has, rather than the veteran having to fit to the basket that the government has. So they're packaging care services to what they might call a community aged care package, in a number of countries, and those packages are worth about $12,000 or $13,000 a year, but those packages contain a whole range of services based on an assessment from a multidisciplinary assessment team. They're good things that certainly happen.
The move away to more residential settings of long-term care facilities, to make them more like home, certainly has been an emphasis for 10 years.
So those are a couple of comments.